Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the way pictures were being retouched. He had the white paint taken off, then showed the artists how he wanted the job done. At the copy desk he looked at a few heads, then gave his first flat order: no more heads starting with verbs, like INDICT 16 MILLS ON FLOUR PRICES...
...enough to indict the murderer. It is time for America and the United Nations to act. Every hour sees the murder of more thousands. . . . All who will be allowed to perish will be an eternal badge of shame on the soul of mankind...
Federal grand juries seldom indict for lynching anywhere, but a jury made legal race history last week in Jackson, Miss. by doing just that: indicting Deputy Sheriff Luther Holder of Jones County-as well as four leaders of a lynch mob-because he did not protest or protect the jail or cell of one Howard Wash and so failed to keep alive his prisoner...
...rest of the world has ever completely achieved this equality. In the U.S., the status of the Negro and the poverty of the South constitute the worst violations of historic U.S. principles. In the rest of the world, racial discrimination and the poverty of backward countries indict the weakness of the white man's works...
Result: last week Flynn and Betty's three young men were charged with statutory rape by Los Angeles District Attorney John F. Dockweiler. A grand jury had already refused to indict...